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7 Ways to prepare your restaurant for a successful summer

Open for Business

Spring brings warmer weather, extended daylight, and the craving for cold beverages. This is the perfect time to get your restaurant summer-ready. From transforming your space into an outdoor retreat to making the most of occasions like Father’s Day and Pride Month, there are several ways to elevate your dining experience, attract new guests, and boost your bottom line this season.

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How Two Leading Burger Chains Empower Field Users to Drive Change

Crunchtime

With billions of burgers served worldwide each year, brands are always looking for ways to stand out from the crowd and keep customers coming back for more. It starts with equipping your teams to deliver great experiences consistently and empowering them with the right processes and standards to do so. When implementing an operations execution tool, or when making any kind of change to a process, it is crucial to empower field users to drive that change.

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Combi Ovens Versus Conventional Cooking: What Are The Benefits For Operators?

Restaurant Business

Saving on labor, food and overhead costs has always been a priority for restaurant operators, but in recent years—with tighter competition and other challenges—it’s never been more important. When considering ways to trim costs, one area operators may not immediately gravitate toward is upgrading equipment. Existing equipment, such as ovens and stoves, work alright for many businesses.

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Optimizing the Supply Chain: 3 Methods for Maximum Restaurant Efficiency

The Rail

By Briana Hilton, Contributor “Right now is the hardest it has ever been in 25 years of running restaurants,” said Bryan Solar, chief product officer at SpotOn. While the industry has been clouded by a variety of pressures that defined 2023 (such as inflation and price sensitivity), Restaurant Dive predicts that such challenges may push restaurants to embrace new solutions this year.

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Less Stress, More Success: Accounting Best Practices & Processes for 2025

Speaker: Amanda Adams, Fractional CFO, CPA

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Amanda Adams, a seasoned fractional CFO and CPA passionate about transforming back-office operations for finance teams. This session will cover critical best practices and process improvements tailored specifically for accounting professionals.

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At age 59, San Francisco's Scoma's restaurant still defers to its elders

Restaurant Business

Restaurant Rewind: The Fisherman's Wharf landmark has adhered to the traditions set by founder Al Scoma without ignoring what today's customers want.

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Picking the Right Meat Supplier

Modern Restaurant Management

Choosing the right meat supplier is crucial for restaurants aiming to offer top-notch meals that leave a lasting impression on their patrons. The quality of meat can dramatically affect the taste and overall experience of a dish. Here are several key tips for selecting a meat vendor that meets high-quality standards, ensuring that the meat you serve is of the best quality possible.

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Wait, the Cheapest Bottle on a Wine List Costs How Much Now?

EATER

Less than a decade ago, it was routine to find great wines under $40 at top New York City restaurants. What happens when even entry-level wines feel like luxury items?

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McDonald's is making a massive investment in digital marketing

Restaurant Business

The fast-food giant is shifting spending to digital marketing and plans to invest “hundreds of millions” into digital innovation, including new ordering channels, personalization and loyalty.

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You Can Now Actually Refill Your Graza Bottle With Graza

EATER

Now you can fill up an empty Graza bottle with more Graza. | Graza The brand just launched refill cans of its TikTok-famous olive oil I have a confession: When that neon green nib of Graza pops into one of my cooking videos , despite my attempts to not get it in frame, it’s not always Graza coming out. More likely, it’s another brand of olive oil, which I’ve bought in bulk and then poured into the Graza bottle.

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Vacuum Packing Solutions for Restaurants

Chef's Resources

May 9, 2024 Preserving Freshness and Efficiency: The Role of Vacuum Packing Solutions for Restaurants In the fast-paced world of restaurants, maintaining freshness while maximizing efficiency is essential. Vacuum packing solutions have emerged as indispensable tools for achieving these goals, revolutionizing food storage, preparation, and presentation in restaurant kitchens.

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Reduce Bias in Hiring: Structured Interview Questions for Employers

Structured interview questions are a valuable tool for reducing bias in hiring. They help: Ensure all candidates are asked the same questions in the same way Level the playing field so all candidates have a fair chance of being successful Improve credibility, reliability, and validity Download the guide to get the most out of your interview questions!

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Are consumers ordering less delivery? It depends on who you ask

Restaurant Business

Tech Check: There are signs that demand is slowing. But some are finding the convenience too good to quit.

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How to Effectively Implement Retail Dynamic Pricing

Revel Systems

Pricing products to maximize profits in retail has never been easy. Too low and you lose out on profit. Too high and you deter consumers, hurting brand image and sales.

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Increased marketing spending did not help Papa Johns' sales in April

Restaurant Business

A softer consumer environment is more than offsetting the pizza chain’s boost in marketing in recent weeks. But profitability improved last quarter.

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Red Lobster sale expected this year, owner says

Restaurant Business

Thai Union Group is “actively engaged” in negotiations with potential buyers for the struggling seafood chain.

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Food & Beverage Industry Report 2024

Driven by a diverse and exciting ecosystem of passionate, ambitious, and often young entrepreneurs, the Food & Beverage (F&B) sector is a highly competitive environment full of immense challenges and exciting opportunities. Expert Market’s 2024 industry report, sponsored by Toast, is informed by a survey of 522 U.S. food and beverage professionals, from restaurant owners to food service managers, providing insights into the real-time challenges and opportunities within the industry.

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The Taiwanese wheel cake may just become the next cronut

Restaurant Business

Behind the Menu: Money Cake opens in New York, tempting pastry fans with the waffle-cream puff hybrid.

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